Resources
 

www.adl.org – Anti-Defamation League
www.afsc.org – American Friends Service committee – Quakers dedicated to peace
http://www.aipac.org – American-Israeli Public Affairs committee
http://www.ajc.org – American Jewish Committee – safeguarding welfare and security of Jews in US and Israel
http://www.ameu.org – Americans for Middle East Understanding
http://www.Amnesty.org – Amnesty International
http://www.azm.org – American Zionist Movement
http://www.B’naiB’rith.org – promotes and protests interests of Jewish communities wherever they exist
http://www.btvshalom.org – Brit Tzedek v’Shalom – Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
http://www.B’Tselem.org – Israeli human rights organization
http://www.BatShalom.org – Israeli women’s group with ties to The Jerusalem Link, their Palestinian counterpart
http://www.camera.org – Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
http://www.CampusWatch.org – Monitors Middle East Studies programs on campus
http://www.coalitionofwomen.org – Coalition of Women for a Just Peace
http://www.cpt.org – Christian Peacemaker Team based in Chicago and Hebron, West Bank
http://www.dailyalert.org -news for Conference of Presidents of Am. Jewish organizations
http://www.electronicintifada.org – excellent news site
http://www.endthecampaign.org – US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation
http://www.forusa.org- Fellowship of Reconciliation, a Quaker movement for peace
http://www.gushshalom.org – excellent Israeli site run by Uri Avnery, former Knesset member
http://www.Hadassah.org – Women’s Zionist Organization of America
http://www.hillel.org – the Foundation for Jewish campus life
http://www.holylandtrust.org – Holy Land Trust, a Palestinian NGO working with children
http://www.hrw.org – Human Rights Watch
http://www.icahd.org – The Israeli Committee against House Demolitions
http://www.imagine-life.org – Media-based human right’s awareness campaign through PSAs
http://www.israeloncampuscoalition.org – Media Watch International-advancing Israel’s image by promoting accurate media coverage
http://www.j-c-w.org – Jerusalem Center for Women
http://www.Jerusalem.indymedia.org – coverage of news from Jerusalem
http://www.JewishVoiceforPeace.org – Jewish Voice for Peace
http://www.kibush.co.il – magazine on Israeli occupation published by Israelis
http://www.MachsomWatch.com – reports from Israeli women monitoring Israeli checkpoints
http://www.mfa.gov.il – Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.Mifta.org – Initiative for Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
http://www.PalestineMonitor.org – good Palestinian coverage
http://www.pchrgaza.org – Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza
http://www.rapprochement.org – Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between people
http://www.refusersolidarity.net – Refuser Solidarity Network of Israeli refuseniks
http://www.rhr.israel.net Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel
http://www.StandwithUsCampus.com – site gives students material that shows facts about what is really going on in the Middle East
http://www.stopthewallcampaign.org  – excellent Palestinian news site
http://www.Tikkun.org – an online magazine by Rabbi Michael Lerner
http://www.wib.org – Women in Black
http://www.womeningreen.org - Women in Green, Israeli grassroots women’s movement
http://www.zoa.org – Zionist Organization of America, speaking out for Israeli interests
http://www.arabworld.nitle.org – an introduction to Arab culture and civilization

http://www.informationclearinghouse.org - Some 20 new articles daily, one of the best sources


NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES ONLINE

http://www.ahram.org.eng/weekly - Al Ahram, newspaper from Cairo, Egypt
http://www.baltimoresun.com – The Baltimore Sun
http://www.bbc.co.uk – BBC news
http://www.bitterlemons.international.org – good source for even-handed Middle East news
http://www.counterpunch.org – Alexander Cockburn’s site
http://www.dailystar.com.lb – Daily Star, newspaper from Beirut, Lebanon
http://www.ha’aretz.com – Israeli English-version newspaper
http://www.independent.co.uk – excellent source for Robert Fisk’s articles
http://www.jpost.com – Jerusalem Post – Israel’s right of center English daily
http://www.lemonde.fr – Le Monde, French daily
http://www.meionline.com – excellent source for Middle East news
http://www.thenation.com – the Nation
http://www.washington-report.org – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
http://www.ynet.co.il – Yediot Aharonot, an Israeli daily
http://www.Znet.org – Z Magazine on line, scroll to MidEast Watch

SUGGESTED READING

Attek, Naim. Justice and only Justice. Orbis Press, New York, 2001.

Aruri, Naseer. Dishonest Broker, South End Press, Massachusetts, 2003.

AMEU. Burning Issues:Understanding and Misunderstanding the Middle East, 2007.

Carey, Ron. The New Intifada, Verso, London, 2001.

Carter, Jimmy. Our Endangered Values. Simon and Schuster, New York, 2005.

Carter, Jimmy. Israel: Peace not Apartheid. Simon and Schuster, New York, 2006.

Chacour, Elias. Blood Brothers. Chosen Books, New York, 1984.

Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle. South End Press, boston, 1983.

Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion. Pluto Press, London, Ann Arbor, 2006.

David, Ron. Arabs and Israel for Beginners. Writers and Readers Publishing, New York, 1996.

Ellis, Mark. Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation. Orbis books, New York, 1987.

Feiler, Bruce. Walking the Bible. William Morrow & Co., New York, 2001.

Flappan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. Pantheon Books, New York, 1987.

Friedman, Robert. Zealots for Zion. Random House, New York, 1992.

Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza. Metropolitan Books, New York, 1999.

Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch. Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, New York, 1977.

Hovsepain, Nubar, Editor: The War on Lebanon: A Reader. Olive Branch Press, 2008.

Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah's Men. Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2008.

Mearsheimer, John and Walt, Stephen. The Israel Lobby. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2007.

Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Norton, Augustus. Hezbollah. Princeton University Press, 2007.

Pappe, Illan. The Making of Israel: Myths and Realities. I.B.Tauris, London, 1994.

Pappe, Illan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. One World Publications Limited, 2006, 2007.

Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948. Seven Stories Press, NY, 2002.

Swisher, Clayton. The Truth about Camp David. Nation Books, New York, 2004.

Zertal, Idith and Eldar Akiva. Lords of the Land. Nation Books, New York, 2005, 2007.

 

SITES of SPECIAL INTEREST:

www.kimjensen.org

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FOOTNOTES FROM TRAGEDY IN SOUTH LEBANON

Seelye, Kate. “Face to Face with the Victims of State-sponsored Israeli Terror at Qana.”
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Amr, Hady. “Avoiding the Emergence of Two Lebanons.” Daily Star, September 10,
2007.
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Harel, Amos, Benn Aluf and Gideon Alon. “Government Okays Massive Strikes on
Lebanon.” Ha’aretz, 13 July 2006.

Goldenberg, Suzanne. “Red Cross Ambulances Destroyed in Israeli Air Strike on Rescue
Mission.” the Guardian, July 25, 2006.

“Israelis Traumatized in Sderot.” Sydney Morning Herald, May 20, 2007.
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Smooha, Sharar. “All the Dreams We Had Are Now Gone.” Ha’aretz, July 19, 2007.
Http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/884018.html

Khatib, Ghassan. “A Complication of Adverse Conditions.” May 21, 2007.
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Crooke, Alistair. “Our Second Biggest Mistake in the Middle East.” London Review of
Books, Volume 29, No. 13, July 5, 2007.


Rizk, Philip. “The Failing of Gaza.” Counterpunch, June 28, 2007.
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Black, Ian. “Un Envoy: Anti-hamas Rhetoric Undermines Democracy.” Guardian
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Rosenberg, MJ. “A Hamas Run Gaza: We Can Thank Ourselves.” Israeli Policy Forum,
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Zunes, Stephen. “The Rise of Hamas.” Foreign Policy in Focus, June 26, 2007.

Rosenberg, Mj. “Palestinians First.” Israeli Policy Forum, Friday, Issue
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Zogby, James J. “Self-inflicted Deadly Wounds.” the Jordan Times, May 29, 2007.

Reinhart, Tanya, “Burning Lebanon, Israel’s New Middle East.” Counterpunch, July 27,
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Lin, Sharat G. “Who Started It? Chronology of the Latest Crisis in the Middle East.”
Counterpunch, July 25, 2006. http://www.counterpunch.org/lin07252006.html

Crook, Alastair and Mark Perry. “How Hezbollah Defeated Israel. Part One: Winning the
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Goksel, Timur. Interviewed by Kevin Sites. “The Great Game.” August 3, 2006. www.Hotzone.yahoo.com


Wearing, David. “Britain’s Role in the Israeli-hezbollah War.” the Democrat’s Diary,
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Fisk, Robert. “The Truce That Won’t Last.” Counterpunch, August 14, 2006. http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk08142006.html

Cook, Jonathan. “Revisiting the Summer War.” The Electronic Intifada, August 16,

“Israel Provides Proof That Hezbollah Used Civilians as Human Shields.” Irish Examiner, December 5, 2006. www.themiddleeastnow.com/news/proofhumanshields.html

Roth, Ken. “Reflections on Human Rights Works.” Tikkun, Match/april 2007,

Cook, Jonathan. “Do America and Israel Want the Middle East Engulfed in Civil War?”
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Salem, Paul. “The Future of Lebanon.” Foreign Affairs, Volume 83, No. 6, Pp. 19–20.

“Two People an Hour Killed or Injured by Cluster Munitions.” Handicap International, September 24, 2007. www.Handicap-international.org.uk/page_247

Stedjan, Scott and Laura Weis, “The Cluster Bomb Treaty.” Counterpunch, March 20,
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“Salima.” Recorded by Titus Peachey. http://www.mcc.org/clusterbombs/news/Lebanon/reports/salima.html

“Raed.” Recorded by Titus Peachey. http://www.mcc.org/clusterbombs/news/Lebanon/reports/raed.html

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Chomsky, Noam. Preface to Israel’s Sacred Terrorism.

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Awartani, Hisham. “Water Resources and Policies in the West Bank.” Samed El-iqtisadi,
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Sahliyeh, Emile. “West Bank Industrial and Agricultural Development: the Basic
Problems.” Journal of Palestine Studies Xi: 2, Winter 1982, P. 66.

Moss, Angela Joy. “Litani River and Israel-lebanon.” Ice Case Studies: Litani River
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Amery, Hussein A. “The Litani River of Lebanon.” Geographical Review, Vol. 83, Issue 3, P. 229, July 1993.


Weisgal, M.W., Ed. “The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann.” Vol. 9. Jerusalem,
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“Provisional Verbatim Record of the Two Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty-Second
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Stauffer, Thomas R. “Water and War in the Middle East: the Hydraulic Parameters of
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“L’etat Hebreu S’ Appreterait a Detourner Les Eaux du Hasbani.” Orient-lejour, Agence
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Blanford, Nicholas. “Heightened Israeli-lebanese Tensions over Jordan’s Headwaters.”
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